[Kooler] UNIX ACL's

Michael O'Keefe mokeefe at qualcomm.com
Fri Jul 21 12:23:48 PDT 2000


> > > > > > And ppl say Unix doesn't have ACL's !!!
> > > > >
> > > > > It's a very coarse-grained ACL.
> > > >
> > > > How so ?
> > >
> > > Because while a user can belong to several groups, a file can not.
> > > So you can't give different permissions to different users of the
> > > same file.
> >
> > But you can setup groups within groups...doesn't that accomplish the same thing ?
> 
> howso? explain, please (i am unfamilar with this)

or I'm wrong, *shrug*

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